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HEREDITY. 



Repeated 



Mentation 



Required* 



vigorous use; (3) it must be daily, or at least 

 regular, and must cease before exhaustion. The 

 same law is applicable to mind training and brain 

 building. To improve any element or power of 

 the mind, the student should decide upon a definite 

 purpose, then adopt such a series of mentation as 

 will call the elements or powers he desires to 

 cultivate into action. This mentation should 

 never be violent nor of such a character as to 

 strain the mind or unduly excite the nervous sys- 

 tem. It should be repeated by daily study and 

 . habitual practice of mentation, or exercise of the 

 powers in question, always stopping short of 

 weariness or exhaustion. 



This method faithfully applied will develop the 

 brain areas and strengthen the mental power of 

 The Brain Must an y faithful student. It should always be borne 

 be Nourished. m m ind, however, that the brain is dependent upon 

 the body for its nourishment and building 

 material ; therefore, brain building requires nutri- 

 tious food, good digestion, free respiration and 

 unimpeded circulation. Thoughts are brain- 

 builders, repeated mentations determine the con- 

 struction, but the body must supply the materials. 

 In character building it is often quite as essen- 

 tial to diminish certain brain centers, and thereby 

 To Restrain Evil restrain inherited or acquired evil tendencies, as 

 it is to cultivate. Not only is this necessary in 

 dealing with children, but it is frequently required 

 in modifying or changing the character of those 

 of mature years, whose early habits have estab- 

 lished undesirable nerve centers and unduly 

 strengthened or developed the areas that give rise 

 to the propensities. To reduce the strength of 



Tendencies. 



